Fill flash and key flash

The iPhone camera app blew out the highlights in this macro photo, losing the details, making it look colorless and dull.

NoctaCam

NoctaCam captured the beautiful yellow color of the flower. And the details — you can see each individual petal, and even the veins on them.

iPhone camera app

In this example, the photographer wanted to capture the person against the dramatic sky, which the iPhone camera app couldn't.

NoctaCam

By contrast, NoctaCam was able to achieve the goal, tastefully balancing the subject and the background.

iPhone camera app

The iPhone camera app worked as a key flash, making the sky look dark, and the plants artificial, resulting in an odd photo.

NoctaCam

NoctaCam was able to capture the gentle colors of the dusk sky in the background, along with the natural-looking plants in the foreground, for a balanced photo. It captured the feel of the scene.

Flashing is for the graceless. NoctaCam gives you both fill light and key light which can help you selectively brighten dark parts, seamlessly blending your phone's LED with natural light, like a Hollywood director.

How Noctacam works

Noctacam is the easiest camera app you've ever used: drag a slider to adjust the LED brightness. As you adjust, you'll see how the photo looks in real time.

Drag the slider all the way up for a flash rather than a continuous light. Drag it all the way down to turn the LED off completely.

See Noctacam's upcoming video mode

The iPhone camera app produces a dark video — you can't make out much. By contrast, Noctacam takes a bright, clear video.

This is made possible by our advanced GPU-accelerated algorithm, which processes almost a gigabyte of data every second in real time. Let Noctacam do all the hard work. You just press the record button.

More Upcoming features

In addition to the video and photo modes, we're also working on the following:

Long exposure

Capture spectacular photos at night. Get results like a DSLR from your iPhone!